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Ann Douglas @anndouglas.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

“An Epic Research study published on Friday analyzing electronic health records found that gambling disorder diagnoses have risen more than 60 percent since 2018 in states that have legalized sports betting. The largest increase came from young people, aged 18 to 29, whose rate more than doubled.”

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Anna Ropp @annaropp.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Glitter and temporary rainbow tattoos on my skin are bringing up lovely memories of Pride weekend. Pride is, as it always seems to be, joyful and a little chaotic, and very, very welcome right now 🌈 Happy Pride!

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Anna Ropp @annaropp.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

My dog regularly (and thankfully) reminds me to stop and pay attention. There’s some great stuff out there I’d likely otherwise miss.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Why worry whether a case has merit when you can screw your enemies just with an indictment?

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Dr Danny Penman @drdannypenman.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Think this is mindfulness? You’ve got it wrong. An Oxford clinical professor and a meditation expert tell Anna Maxted how to do it right — and help chronic depression

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Think this is mindfulness? You’ve got it wrong

An Oxford clinical professor and a meditation expert tell Anna Maxted how to do it right — and help chronic depression

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Did Trump’s 2024 re-election make it okay to be openly prejudiced? New work from @chriscrandall.bsky.social suggests it did. The more negatively Trump spoke about a group, the more okay it became to express prejudice (and the more prejudiced people were) towards that group after the election.

Changing Norms Following the 2024
U.S. Presidential Election: The Trump Effect on Prejudice Redux

Samuel E. Arnold, Jenniffer Wong Chavez, Kelly S. Swanson, and Christian S. Crandall

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Following the 2016 U.S. Presidential election of Donald Trump, prejudice toward groups targeted during his campaign (e.g., Asian Americans, Mexicans) become more acceptable. By contrast, both Trump and Clinton voters reported less prejudice of their own. We conducted a 2024 conceptual replication, measuring perceived norms of prejudice and own-prejudice toward 128 groups,
both before (N = 362) and after (N = 261) the U.S.
election. We separately measured the negativity of Trump's campaign rhetoric toward these groups (N = 188). Levels of prejudice and perceived norms of prejudice acceptability were mostly stable pre-/post-election, but Trump's negative rhetoric predicted an increase in perceived acceptability of prejudice among targeted groups (replicating the 2016 results), and a rise in selt-reported prejudice in the same groups post-election (reversing the 2016 results). Despite changes in the sociopolitical context between elections, the election of a leading politician who campaigned on prejudice was again associated with increases in the acceptability of prejudice.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

A regime driven by the desire to create social media content for their hardcore fans on the extreme Right. It is an immensely dangerous situation. But I don't think this cruel spectacle is an effective way to consolidate authoritarian rule.

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Marianna Zhang @mariannazhang.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

some parents, esp white parents, fail to answer their children's questions about race or provide colorblind messages ("race is not important"). but are these effective? 🗣️ we find they aren't! structural explanations seem to be more constructive (1/5) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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How Colorblind and Structural Messages Affect Children's Reasoning About Novel Group Disparities

Children experience a variety of messages about racial–ethnic socialization from their parents, teachers, and other sources, who might not answer children's questions about race, or might explicitly...

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 01/12/2025

So yeah, this is fundamentally about trans people and that cannot be elided, but the ways in which junior faculty are targeted and disposed of, while academic jobs are increasingly precarized, and political grandstanders seek to influence academic governance are fucking terrifying for everyone.

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Anna Ropp @annaropp.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

A couple of decades ago, I went to Oxford University to interview for a postdoc-type position with Miles Hewstone. At the time - and for years afterward - I was disappointed I didn’t get the position. Now, I realize how lucky I was.

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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 02/11/2025

According to psychology research, people can abruptly shift left when there is a "threat event" to health care access or threats from pollution and disaster, in a similar manner that the majority went hawkish after 9/11. Anger drives it. This is a rare event that upends the game board of politics.

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Erik Derycke @derycke.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

“Universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 31/10/2025

This whole thread. “Oh no, someone might eat food!” Good. That’s good. “They might buy something they like.” Cool. “They might get a treat!” Also cool.

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Anna Ropp @annaropp.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Turns out I could start a food pantry for students in our department by just asking if we could start a food pantry for students in our department 🤷🏻‍♀️💕 Talked with 3 students this week who are losing SNAP benefits. I’m sure there are many more 😢

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

It is great that small businesses and local organizations are stepping up to fill gaps in food access while SNAP is frozen, but every story masks a systemic and humiliating failure of the US Government to support its most vulnerable citizens. The GoFundMe-ification of social services makes me sick.

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

One of my favorite studies to teach about: Dr. Anne Becker’s work in Fiji, exploring the introduction of Western television for young girls’ body image and eating behaviors (it’s bad) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12042229

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The introduction of Television to rural Fiji (Becker et al., 2002). Prior to 1995, the rate of dieting and eating disorders in Fiji was extremely low – so low that researchers decided to study it!
Western television was introduced in Fiji in 1995
After 3 years of exposure to television…
69% of girls reported dieting to lose weight
74% reported that they felt “too big or too fat”
The rate of EAT-26 scores above 20 (i.e., high eating disorder symptomology) increased nearly 17% (from 12.7%), and the rate of self-induced vomiting increased nearly 12% (from 0%)
Girls living in households with a television set were 3X more likely to have an EAT-26 score above 20

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 13/10/2025

More Americans are biting their tongues, not because they don’t care, but because they’re afraid to speak. From DEI to the war in Gaza, people are more afraid to speak their minds now than during the Red Scare, according to a political scientist who has been conducting surveys. buff.ly/Ls2m7mv

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Self-censorship and the ‘spiral of silence’: Why Americans are less likely to publicly voice their opinions on political issues

Nearly half of Americans say they feel less free to speak their minds.

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Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

"Psychology is meant to study humans, not patterns at the output of biased statistical models." It baffles me this needs to be said, but here we are. There are already viral studies from respected scientists suggesting we can learn something about human cognition from LLMs. Scary & disgraceful.

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Anna Ropp @annaropp.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

From the abstract: “When seeing classrooms with stereotypically masculine (vs. neutral) objects, women perceived less safety, which predicted less engagement, interest, and intentions to recruit others.“

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Ending Medicaid in order to build concentration camps. I feel, as always, there should be some kind of nonstop barrage of ads across America, every Democrat on every platform saying something like “Republicans want to end Medicaid in words to build concentration camps.”

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 29/06/2025

Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 04/06/2025

Incredible: 0% of studies funded by the meat industry have found a link between red meat and cardiovascular ill-health. 73% of studies *not* funded by the meat industry have found a link. www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

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Is red meat bad for your heart? Studies leave plenty to chew over

Scientists analyse industry-sponsored research on red meat and heart health

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 01/06/2025

HAPPY PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈 Under Trump, research using terms like “Trans,” “LGBTQ,” & “Gender identity” is being defunded. These terms reflect real people who deserve science that includes them. Stand with us to protect LGBTQ+ science from political erasure. grant-watch.us/nih-data.html @rcmedphys.bsky.social

A word cloud made from flagged terms in terminated NIH grant proposals. The most prominent words in large font include “trans,” “diverse,” “diversity,” “minority,” “sex,” “expression,” “mental health,” “gender,” and “women.” Other visible terms include “LGBTQ,” “racial,” “underrepresented,” “disability,” “barriers,” “black,” “equity,” “health equity,” “vaccine,” “bias,” and “intersectionality.” The word cloud highlights terms related to identity, inclusion, and marginalized communities.

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Adam Morris @thatadammorris.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

A widespread view in psychology is that most cognitive processes are unconscious. In a new paper, I argue that many of these processes may evade consciousness for the same reason the "invisible gorilla" did: People fail to pay attention to them. 🧵 direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

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Invisible Gorillas in the Mind: Internal Inattentional Blindness and the Prospect of Introspection Training

Abstract. Much of high-level cognition appears inaccessible to consciousness. Countless studies have revealed mental processes—like those underlying our choices, beliefs, judgments, intuitions, etc.—w...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

Headline from the independent: Trump gives rambling speech about trophy wives, golf and the 'great late' Al Capone in politically-charged West Point address

Headline from the New York Times: Trump Gives Commencement Address at West Point, Stressing a New Era

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

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Jon Feinberg @jonfeinberg.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

The headline is deeply misleading. You can’t suspend habeas corpus just “for migrants.” As we’ve seen, ICE will pick *anyone* up. If you have legal status but no right to habeas corpus, you’ll have no ability to challenge your detention or deportation. Suspension for some is suspension for all.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/05/2025

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 02/05/2025

This gender split is troubling but not surprising. As girls have started out-achieving boys academically, school and related things like reading have come to be seen as "feminine." Which becomes a self-perpetuating cycle, leading some people to view school--and thus reading--as too "girly" for boys.

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 02/05/2025

Hmmm... Disparity: 0-2yr olds being read to every day/nearly every day: 29% of boys; 44% of girls "HarperCollins said that many parents focus on the literacy element of reading, seeing it as a skill, rather than encouraging a love for reading in their children." Concerted cultivation side effect?

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Most parents don’t enjoy reading to their children, survey suggests

Report from Nielsen and HarperCollins shows that parents see reading as a literacy skill, rather than something to encourage their children to love

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Dr. Allison Master @allisonmaster.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

It’s a tough time for STEM education research right now, but we are still excited to share our new PNAS paper, “Divergence in children’s gender stereotypes and motivation across STEM fields”! We have big surveys (2,765 students in Grades 1-12), 2 pre-registered studies, and open data. (1/13)

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

NYU is hiring a Visiting Lecturer in Social Psychology The position is ideal for someone who is applying for academic positions and looking to gain additional research and teaching experience. The salary is $70,000 Applicant review begins MAY 1. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/166631

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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Signal boosting to #devskysci folks working in social cognition/development and methods, or more generally on science in the public interest - can you support a postdoc whose planned post-phd employment was just terminated? #psychscisky #psychsky

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/04/2025

So basically there's a cabal of billionaire broligarchs, far right propagandists, and reactionary centrist journalists all on group chats radicalizing together and exerting coordinated narratives and influence on media and politics www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

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The group chats that changed America

A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.

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British Psychological Society @bpsofficial.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Could you drive forward initiatives that champion equality, diversity and inclusion across the society? Applications are now open for a Chair to lead our Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Board. Make a meaningful contribution: www.bps.org.uk/elections-2025

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Anna Ropp @annaropp.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

“On average, well-being and relationship satisfaction increased leading up to marriage, dropped significantly shortly after marriage, and continued to decline following marriage.” From the abstract

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 25/04/2025

Last night, the Indiana legislature passed a budget bill gutting IU's academic freedom. It: -gives the Governor total control of the Board of Trustees -limits the Faculty Senate to an advisory role -mandates post-tenure productivity/teaching review of faculty -lets the state to ID programs to close

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

People don’t need to “learn to use AI”. They need to learn how to think and make connections themselves and thus will facilitate their efficient use of whatever technology comes along. Crafting the right prompt for AI doesn’t take AI training, it takes liberal arts training.

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Kai Sassenberg @kaisassenberg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Job Alert: We are searching for a postdoc (1 fte, 22 months) for a DFG-funded project on bias reduction via cognitive conflicts. Feel free to contact me via e-mail (address provided in the post) or DM. leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/ux0vb9i0

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Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d)

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

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